Why can’t we learn to get along? We take pride in our being labeled by foreigners as the most hospitable and ready-to-smile people. We often try to outdo ourselves in making our visitors feel at home whenever they come upon these shores.

But, why can’t we learn to get along?

Why do we always try to outwit each other when we are driving? Most drivers would swerve this and that way without thinking of how it might endanger other drivers.

And, why would drivers take the fast lane, then at the last minute, swerve to the lane leading to the underpass, cutting all those drivers who patiently waited for their turn.

Our historians claim we came from a common ancestral group. And yet, we can never seem to stop going after each other’s throats. Our disagreements over politics, economics, and show business, we tend to revolve with violence. The bloodier, the more gore involved, the happier we seem.
Maybe, we’ll never learn to get along.

Notebook Displays

OK. So, now you have saved about a couple of hundreds of dollars by purchasing a netbook instead of a fully featured desktop computer. Then reality starts to sink in. That teeny-weeny keyboard and LCD screen can never satisfy your need for full-sized typing and viewing real estates.

Of course, you can buy yourself an external keyboard to address your fingers’ need for a bigger playground. And now, Samsung Electronics has come up with monitors designed to expand a netbook’s display abilities.

Samsung’s Lapfit monitors, the LD220G and LD190N, are designed to be used as secondary displays for notebook computers. Priced at $249.99 and $149.99, respectively, these Lapfit monitors offer netbook users the advantages of having dual displays for viewing Web sites, documents, and widgets.

The Lapfits can display movies and games in 16:9 widescreen high definition format and 1080p picture quality.

HP’s Tablet Remote for Windows 7

HP announced the DreamScreen, a touchscreen tablet that combines features of a wireless photo frame and a remote. Designed to work with Windows 7-enabled computers, the remote-cum-photo frame comes with a 10.2-inch display (15:9 aspect ratio); 2GB of built-in memory; and a host of I/O ports, such as USB, memory card reader, and headphone output.

It even includes built-in speakers and 10/100 LAN and wireless 802.11 b/g connectivity options. It supports the following media file formats: MPEG 1, 2, 4, H.264 videos; JPEG, PNG, and BMP photos; and MP3, WMA, AAC, and WAV audios.

That’s all for the meantime, folks. Join me again next time as we keep on watching IT.